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 i6 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY The Forerunners Unfortunately, it is largely advisable to write of the Australian natives as in the past tense. The territory settled by the whites a few decades ago knows them no more ; the fiat hiis gone forth ; the white civilises the black out of existence. The vices of the stronger were adopted by the weak to their woful decimation, and it is certain that the dark skin has been worsted in its contact with the Caucasian ; still only in unexplored or unsettled territory do they roam their desert birthplaces untrammelled, free, contented ; taking no thought for the morrow, and living onl) for the day. ■■«• Reproduction of Flinders Plate at Memory Cove, Port Ln